Özet:

In this study, the relationship between poverty and religious life or religiousness was tried to be addressed from the point of view of the proportions of mosque filling. In this context, the mosque availability rates in the central districts of Samsun are compared with the neighborhood distribution of the formal and civil organizations on poverty aid. According to this, the neighborhood that receives the most aid from the official and civil aid agencies is considered the highest in poverty. Similarly, the highest number of mosques in the neighborhood is considered the highest number of religious points. This method can not be considered as a single short in measuring the relationship between poverty and religious life, but can be considered meaningful in terms of providing information based on concrete data, even in part. For it is necessary to identify the rates of accessibility of the mosque and, if necessary, to classify the activities of the aid organizations according to the neighborhoods requires a considerable work in the field of research. The results obtained in terms of the fullness rates are also compared with the data of our previous study, i.e. the relationship between individual prayer and income level. According to the data used in our study, the classic approach that the levels of religiousity of the poor will be higher than the rich has lost its validity for today’s poor. Theoretically, there are two main relationships between poverty and religion. The negative approach to religion can be taken to Marxism. According to this approach, religiousness has statements that will lead to poverty and therefore religion must be under pressure. According to the positive approach of the religious minister, for example, the Islam’s Zakat institution expresses that even religion alone has a fundamental view to reducing poverty. These two basic theoretical approaches are possible to test with a experimental study. According to the results of the field research we conducted in the city center of Samsun, the study also pointed out that the negative viewpoint in the form of "the poverty causes religiousness, and the religiousness causes poverty" is found to be wrong. According to the previous study, the relationship between poverty and religion is constantly changing depending on the rise of the socio-economic level.

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